Research article

Positive deviance control-case life history: a method to develop grounded hypotheses about successful long-term avoidance of infection

Samuel R Friedman^1,²^*, Pedro Mateu-Gelabert¹, Milagros Sandoval¹, Holly Hagan¹ and Don CD Jarlais^1,³

¹ National Development and Research Institutes, Inc. 71 West 23d Street, 8th floor, New York, NY 10010 USA

² Department of Epidemiology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA

³ Baron Edmond de Rothschild Chemical Dependency Institute, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, NY, USA

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BMC Public Health 2008, 8:94 doi:10.1186/1471-2458-8-94

Published: 20 March 2008

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Appendix 1. Life History Protocol. This is the interview guide for eliciting life history information.

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